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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast today. Want

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Speaker 1: you to know that Victoria and I are praying for

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Speaker 1: you and your family this summer and just asking God

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Speaker 1: to bring you more peace and joy and victory than

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Speaker 1: you've ever seen before. Know that God's for you has

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Speaker 1: got you in the palm of his hand, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop by be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this pastor. He

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Speaker 1: found a small box hidden in his wife's closet.

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Speaker 2: He opened it up. There were six eggs and one thousand,

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Speaker 2: one dollar bills. He asked his wife about it.

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Speaker 1: She explained how every time he preached a bad sermon,

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Speaker 1: she put an egg in the box. After thirty five

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Speaker 1: years of ministring, he felt pretty good about himself, only.

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Speaker 2: Six bad sermons. He asked what the thousand dollars was.

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Speaker 1: She said, and every time I got a dozen eggs,

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about prepared in the process.

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Speaker 1: When Victoria and I found out we were pregnant with

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Speaker 2: We were so excited. We called our parents, told our friends.

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Speaker 1: Weeks, we started getting the baby's room together, moving furniture around.

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Speaker 1: All we could think about was this baby was on

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Speaker 1: the way. Six months later, Victoria's feet started swelling, her

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Speaker 2: Some morning she was nausey. Suppose we went.

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Speaker 1: He'd say, no, I'm sorry. It's all a part of

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Speaker 1: the process. If you're going to give birth, you have

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Speaker 1: not like gaining the weight, but it's necessary. It's making

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Speaker 1: may hurt. It's uncomfortable, but it's not unusual. Without the process,

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Speaker 2: It's the same principle in life.

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Speaker 1: We all have dreams God's placed in our heart, goals

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Speaker 1: often we get discouraged by the process.

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Speaker 2: It's taken longer than we thought.

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Speaker 1: We had some bad breaks, we went through a loss,

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Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable, but like a pregnancy, it's a part of

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Speaker 2: Here's the key. You're anointed.

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Speaker 1: Before you're appointed, there's going to be a preparation period

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Speaker 1: appointing come. In the scripture, David was anointed to be

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Speaker 2: But David understood this principle. He had to show God

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Speaker 2: It took thirteen years for his anointing to catch up

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Speaker 1: But without those thirteen years of keeping a good attitude,

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Speaker 1: God was taking him. God knows what's in your future.

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Speaker 1: You may not understand why it's taken so long, why

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Speaker 1: it hasn't turned out the way you thought, why you're

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Speaker 2: But everything you've been through was to strengthen you, to

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Speaker 2: Without it, you couldn't give birth to what's in you.

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Speaker 2: And if you do, like David, not try to figure

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Speaker 2: Thing, giving, serving, loving, Then your time is coming. Your

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Speaker 1: One day, while David was in those lonely shepherd's fields,

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Speaker 1: If David would have been too proud, not willing to

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Speaker 1: It's easy to think, I'm not going to do this

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Speaker 2: Thing God has in store will open up. It can

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Speaker 2: be uncomfortable to have to humble ourselves. We think, God,

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Speaker 1: I have more training than them, more education, more skill,

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Speaker 2: It's a part of the process. It's getting you prepared.

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Speaker 1: When I used to do the television production here at Lakewood,

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Speaker 1: She said to my father, let me do it. Nobody

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Speaker 1: When you're faithful in the small, you're passing the test

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Speaker 2: It's getting you prepared.

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Speaker 1: You're getting closer to the birth. If you'll keep passing

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Speaker 2: But here's the key. You have to be willing to

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Speaker 1: I know a lady that gave birth to twins very premature.

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Speaker 2: To be much bigger than you've ever imagined.

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